Difference Screen seeks artists' short single screen films for a traveling
project in Europe, Asia, North America
‘Difference Screen’ will present a portable programme of artists’ film and
video, mostly from the last decade, in locations across Europe, Asia and
America - a collection of references and reflections that propose notions of
difference and the dynamics of place, landscape, identity and culture.
The project will launch in England in 2013 before traveling abroad. After an
initial screening in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, the project will be
seen at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London before touring to venues
internationally. Artists/filmmakers will be invited to speak at each event
about their work where possible (or make contributions remotely). Organizers
Bruce Allan and Ben Eastop are currently compiling a long-list before selection
for the eventual programme(s).
We're looking for short films under 15 mins but some will be longer. Diverse
approaches range from experimental to documentary.
Deadline for submissions: 15 August
To submit a film for consideration please send an online link to your film to
Bruce Allan dhoolie.br...@gmail.com
Difference Screen
Explorations of how the dynamics of place, landscape, identity and culture find
expression in artists' film and video
The worldwide spread of artists’ moving image practice over the past 30 or 40
years, since the experimental years of the 60s and 70s, has coincided with
global events of historical magnitude: the collapse of communism in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe, the 9/11 attack on New York and subsequent wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, the world financial crisis of 2008 and ongoing economic
tremors in Europe and recently the Arab Spring movements for democratic change.
There is a sense of a massive shifting in social, political and economic
tectonics, like slipping geological fault lines, as the old order is challenged
by the rising economies of China, India and others. We live in an age of
uncertainty and change, but also of promise in the unknown. Human endeavor
through science probes the boundaries of the world as we know it. New
possibilities for creative potential have emerged, exploited by artists in
places once overlooked, exposed to view like overturned stones to wider
audiences wired into global social and media networks.
Difference Screen presents an international programme of artists’ film and
video, mostly from the last decade, in locations around the world, not as a
survey of events but a collection of references and reflections through
artists’ vision and imagination that expresses notions of difference. Some of
the works are intimate, moving, and sometimes personal, but in many, landscape
is a common reference point. Landscape, social conflict and change have been
inextricably connected over millennia – this is not landscape an idealized
pictorial view, but one where human intervention is always present, a dynamic
and continuous landscape, hinting of recent extinctions of previous social
orders, or the faultiness of interminable social conflict – rusting Soviet era
cable cars reaching between precarious hilltop stations in Chiatura, Georgia,
to the mega scale lights of gambling Las Vegas just 75 miles from the 1950s
nuclear test sites in Nevada USA. This is also landscape of the city and urban
architecture, vertiginous, multifaceted, or a dystopian concrete architectural
vision, Brusselization.
Exploiting the portability of the medium, the programme will travel from the UK
to locations and venues across Europe, Asia and America. The idea of difference
will be brought into focus at each venue, resulting in resonance or dissonance
depending on the relationship between the content of the works and the location
and context of the venue. The experience of attending each screening event is
therefore as important as the works themselves, and will be further enhanced by
contributions of artist-filmmakers, where possible, at each venue.
This journey of artists’ film will be recorded via a Difference Screen blog
from venue to venue, and archived on a Difference Screen website.
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